Disappointing start to the season. Johnson's first game for WA and he ripped through my top order to snare Broad, Simpson and Hopes for not much. Carseldine and Floros showed some good touch and Swan was handy at the end, but we were never going to post enough. Succeeded in keeping WA quiet, but Ronchi got them over the line with a run a ball 44* to seal the win.

Very nearly an absolute disaster as WA gave us around eighty overs to survive and too much of a target. We were all over them in the first innings after reducing them to 6-190 (effectively 7-fa with Robinson injured), but Bandy, Johnson and Magoffin all made runs. Townsend was the best of the batsmen for us with an 82 off 238, but the top-middle order struggled with Bandy who had 4-44 off 21 overs. We bowled poorly in the second innings and were in all sorts of trouble to bat out the day, but Boyce and Swan lasted forty minutes to avoid an outright loss.

My bowling is absolutely rat**** at the moment. Boyce managed to snare Sangakkara with his first ball in List A cricket caught behind, but then went the journey off his next 33 balls to end with 1-49. Rimmington and Simpson also copped some stick. I didn't think the total we posted was too bad. Philipson made a vital half century but threw it away against Fernando, while Swan was handy again with 22 off 14.

Changing things up a bit here. Feldman wasn't too bad in the first game against WA, but makes way for Harris while Laughlin comes in to give us another bowling option. Broad has failed in his first two games, so Reardon comes in on the back of some decent grade form.

Bit tough on Floros who has made a couple of good starts, but he fell at a bad time last game and Townsend has been strong in grade cricket. I worry that he's a bit slow, though. Rimmington hasn't taken a wicket yet and has gone for piles, so Feldman gets another chance. I'm suffering from picking two T20 specialists which is suicidal with such a small squad.

Finally! Really disciplined bowling display with Swan all over their middle order. Their batsmen made starts but no one except for Smith went on with it. Feldman was 0-13 off two before tearing through the tail with 4-9 off his next three overs. Inspired selection!

Simpson is still very hit-or-miss at the top of the order, but Townsend and Carseldine were great to get the bonus point.

Gahh, not sure how I conceded that many after having them tracking for around 200 at one point. They timed their run well and would have made near 100 off the last ten overs - Feldman and Laughlin going the journey in the batting powerplay. My top order failed again and we were 6-131 before Hartley and Swan added 90. Swan is one of the most handy lower order batsmen going around, but it wasn't enough. Still, we've improve since the start of the year.

Another disappointing display. Swan just isn't taking wickets in FC cricket and is going for runs, but he's continually making contributions with the bat so he's hard to drop. He's the equivalent of Flem's Shane Bond. Could have been very bad had Swan and Harris not put on 97 as we were 7-137 when they came to the wicket. A much better batting display in the second innings thanks to Carseldine and some support for Philipson and Hartley.

Complete the double against South Australia! With another bonus point, too. We were in awful strife with the bat before Hopes and Hartley put on an unbeaten 78 in no time (including 57 off the final five overs). While he isn't taking wickets in the four day game, Swan was all over them by nailing the first three and they were done at 4-23.

Philipson has been averaging around 13 this season and had to go. Broad has also been awful, but has bought himself another chance with a fifty in the last game. Cutting gets his first game of the year replacing Swan who needs to find some form. He has 5 wickets @ 80 this year.

Hopes and Boyce were immense with the bat in the first innings as they added 107 for the tenth wicket - we were 7-76 at one point anyway. I thought we bowled well to everyone but White in Victoria's first innings, and then batted ourselves into a winning position.

In hindsight, perhaps I didn't set them enough in two sessions but Rogers went bezerk and they chased it down with an over to spare.

Pretty complete performance. We got off to a real shaky start but were saved by the middle order. Was going to be a pretty ordinary total before Hartley exploded by hitting Cleary for twenty off his first five before getting out to White. The quicks did well with the ball, but Boyce and Simpson copped some real stick.